SWED 1

The research as a group that we have covered for our devised piece of Pool (no water) are:

• The physical effects of drugs - to help with the characterisation of our characters and the habits of our characters
• Mark Ravenhill - To get a background of the writer of this play and see if his life experiences contribute to the development and writing of this play.
• 90's British act YBAs - Probably the characters in this play are from this group, so by researching this we could understand more about society at the time the play was written and how our characters may be.
• 90's clothing trends - To help with the costume of our performance

The themes of our performance:

• Loss
• Drugs
• Pool
• Friendship
• Jealousy
• Spitefulness
• Daring
• Hatred
• Death
• Effects
• Aftermath

To make a start of our performance we edited the script down and then focused on scenes that we agreed were key moments of the performance. We decided we wanted to incorporate a lot of physical movement in these key moments so we wanted to focus on lifts. (calypo)

pool (no water) rehearsals

Three rehearsals which consisted of devising lifts that would take place at the beginning and end of our performance, involving a calypso and a backwards flying lift?
Other than that we focused on re-reading the script and assigning lines that we believe would fit our characters best. Our roles allows us to put some of our own characteristics into building our characters personality, which made it easier to assign roles to each other.